Note from the Author: This was written before I learned the proper way to format a script. It was incredibly fun to dig this out and read it again.

THE DINNER PARTY

Characters in order of appearance:

Narrator/Writer

Clint the Man with cliches

Judy the Woman who judges

DG/Husband

Colby the Cult Leader

Summary: Family Dinner is takes place with a variety of characters having family dinner in the mind of a struggling writer. The writer has invites them to a imaginative, weekly, family dinner as part of her creative process. This week is exceptional because it is a celebration of her husband, the only actual person in her life, leaving her because she was too focused on her work to notice him despite his antics. Husband is the both the dinner guest and enters at the end of the play to his wife sitting at a table set for 6 and eating a large cake by herself.

The stage is set with dining room adjacent to the front door. A long table set for six people is center stage. The place settings are as such: Narrator at one end, DG, Judy, Colby, Clint, other head of table is set with a laptop instead of a plate, silverware on either side and other place-settings are the same. Dinner is set out family style. Characters never actually sit in their chairs but rather stand and interact behind them.

Note from the photographer: I took this picture when I was nine. I was being homeschooled and taking a photography class at my co-op. This is one of the first pictures I've taken and it was with my mom's phone. I'm learning how to use a Nikon now, and the experience is better with an actual camera, but I still like to play around on my mom's phone and instagram.

Don't die, I whisperTo the clinging vinesWrapped tight across the hard rough stones.My handsThemselves rough and hardStroke the velvet vineIts once hearty leavesDroopingUnder the weight of the heavy rain.

That vine was once my comfort.On the sleepless nightsI would wanderTo its cool green bedAnd when it had been ripped apartBy anger at its creeping growthI would nestle downAmong its broken armsAnd let them heal around me.

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